The 8 best Eurorack modules of 2015

Future Music's Gear of the Year Reader Poll results are in

8. Ericasynths MIDI to Trigger

The ballot box has been closed and all the votes counted in Future Music’s Gear of the Year Reader Poll 2015.

We can finally reveal the best Eurorack modules of 2015, as voted for by you.

What they say

“This small module turns any MIDI sequencer into a eurorack trigger sequencer in no time! It translates MIDI notes to 10ms trigger signals which are useful for triggering drum modules, envelope generators and any other event in your eurorack modular system.

“Setup of module is hassle free and takes just few seconds to make it work with any MIDI sequencer or controller.”

7. Synth Tech E950 Circuit Bent VCO

What they say

“The E950 is a 10Hhp DSP-based VCO that combines the famous "smooth morphing" of the E350 Morphing Terrarium with fully licensed "Speak & Spell" technology from Texas Instruments. The E950 has 4 banks of speech ROM data, which is provided by Texas Instruments under an exclusive license agreement.

"The E950 then applies proprietary "bending" algorithms to behave exactly as a standard "bent" Speak & Spell and then extends them to real-time modulation of the internal lattice filter coefficients, something that cannot be done normally.”

6. Make Noise LxD

What they say

“The LxD, Low Strike Duo, is a dual-response, two channel, direct-coupled, Low Pass Gate, which utilizes vactrols in order to provide simultaneous control over the Amplitude and Frequency Spectrum of an Input Signal. It is, in essence, a VCFA (Voltage Controlled Filter Amplifier).

“Unlike the Optomix, the LxD offers two different filter responses. CH. 1 offers a 12db/ Octave response that is mildly-resonant, while CH. 2 offers a 6bd/ Octave that is non-resonant. The OUTput of CH. 1 is normalled to the INput of CH. 2. This normalization puts the two channels in series, which is similar to the VCF into VCA arrangement made popular by many monosynths of the 1970’s.”